JULIE LARSON-GREEN: Thanks, Steven.
Hi. So, we're going to show you Windows 8 across a variety of different PCs today, and I'm going to show you here on this touch tablet. We worked on this machine with Samsung for our developer preview. We worked with them on how it was going to work, what the screen was like, what the sensors were inside of it, and we made it so that developers could start taking advantage of the things we were going to be doing in Windows 8.
But when we started planning Windows 8, it was before Windows 7 shipped, and there was no device like that. The closest thing that was out there was like an eReader. So, when we started imagining how the new operating system would work on these kind of devices there was nothing to do but make a piece of cardboard that kind of represented what we wanted it to be like. So, as a team we made these cardboard cutouts, and we'd walk around in the hallways holding this, turning it in portrait and landscape. We'd sit in chairs, on the couch, sit at your desk, and try to get really a good feel for the ergonomics of that kind of device, and we learned that the edges of the device are super important, and that when you're holding it in this position it's the most relaxed place to be, uses the fewest amount of muscles, and you can actually hold it for quite a long time.
